Vol 63 No 2 | UGANDANORWAY World Bank's hidden charges 20th January 2022 Norway's Auditor-General has uncovered millions of dollars in hidden administrative costs after probing a US$100 million grant to Uganda. The grant was from the Global Partnership for Education...
Vol 55 No 24 | NORWAYSWEDENFINLANDDENMARKUNITED NATIONS 'No money back' row 5th December 2014 Nordic development aid donors are in dispute with the United Nations over an attempt to get their grants back once corruption has been discovered in UN projects. Denmark,...
Vol 55 No 14 | ETHIOPIANORWAY Oslo cuts its losses 11th July 2014 Norway has taken the highly unusual step of cancelling a hydropower research project in Ethiopia that would have been drowned by the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD, AC...
Vol 55 No 7 | MOROCCOWESTERN SAHARANORWAY Kill the drill 4th April 2014 The Norwegian-based company Aker Solutions has decided to stop providing oil services to its drilling rig in disputed waters off Western Sahara after Africa Confidential publicised the case...
Vol 55 No 6 | ANGOLANORWAY Statoil on the spot 21st March 2014 Norway’s biggest parastatal comes under scrutiny over business partners whose reputation for probity is far from the Scandinavian image The bearer of Norway's reputation for high principles in international business, Statoil, is now on the defensive after revelations in the local media about the shady backgrounds of...
Vol 55 No 6 | MOROCCOWESTERN SAHARANORWAY Testing the offshore limits 21st March 2014 Sahrawi officials are again trying to get the UN to intervene with oil companies drilling in disputed offshore areas A legal battle may be brewing between the Polisario Front, which since 1973 has aspired to rule Western Sahara, and Norwegian oil services company Aker Solutions over offshore...
Vol 53 No 14 | LIBERIANORWAY Killers united 6th July 2012 The Norwegian court trying Anders Behring Breivik, the self-confessed killer of 77 people in July 2011, has heard evidence on his stay in Liberia. In the 1,500-page...
Vol 49 No 24 | LIBYANORWAYFRANCE Identifying the problems 28th November 2008 France’s Total and Spain’s Repsol YPF oil companies are under pressure to divulge who received more than US$6 million in consultant fees paid to suspected politically connected intermediaries...
Vol 49 No 23 | ANGOLANORWAY Anonymous commerce 14th November 2008 Suspicion hangs over Norway's oil major Statoil Hydro after an internal audit published last month flagged as suspicious a joint venture with a mystery Angolan company, signed in...
Vol 48 No 14 | NORWAYWORLD BANK Bank robbery 6th July 2007 Norwegian Development Minister Erik Solheim is determined to get the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to take more seriously the damage which corrupt pricing systems and tax...